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brushing

b ruh shing

  • n  the act of brushing your teeth
  • n  the act of brushing your hair
  • v  rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
  • v  touch lightly and briefly
  • v  clean with a brush
  • v  sweep across or over
  • v  remove with or as if with a brush
  • v  cover by brushing

  • The Sonicare FlexCare brush comes with a charging station, a pair of brush heads (standard and compact), three brushing modes (clean, sensitive and "massage") and a pair of timed .
  • The episode showed Clinton and his aides acting hastily, naively and cavalierly in brushing aside Baird's early warning that she had employed two undocumented Peruvians in her home.
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  • Samuel Alito in Chicago Tribune
    In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito said, "Brushing aside inconvenient precedent, the (majority) arms public educational institutions with a handy weapon for suppressing the speech of unpopular groups - groups to which, as Hastings candidly puts...
  • Irving Penn in San Diego Union Tribune
    Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print,Penn wrote in his own account of his career, "Passage: A Work Record."
  • Max Clifford in WalesOnline
    Mr Clifford praised Tweed for his unstinting support, commenting: "Jack has been incredible. He has been nursing her every hour he is allowed to be there, brushing her teeth, holding her hand. For a 21-year-old to do what he has done is incredible....

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